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Anthropic is targeting what would be the largest IPO in history, with investors pricing the Claude maker at two trillion dollars. Rapid revenue growth is driving that ambition, but the path from private AI darling to public company at that scale comes with enormous execution risk and margin scrutiny that public markets will not forgive lightly.
Shifting to Asia, South Korea's Kospi has clawed back into bull market territory after a bruising stretch, powered by renewed appetite for the semiconductor heavyweights that anchor the index. The bounce reflects broader confidence in chip demand, though the durability of this rally depends heavily on whether that demand cycle holds through the second half.
And staying in semiconductors, Apple investors are revisiting Tim Cook's warning about a so-called hundred year flood in memory chip pricing from last quarter's earnings call. iPhone revenue climbed twenty-two percent in the third quarter, and margins held firm, but any sustained pressure on component costs could quietly erode the profitability story that keeps Apple's multiple elevated.
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